Starting out with the famous George Mitchell singers in the “Ken Dodd” show in Manchester, Richard went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and whilst working and paying his way through college, joined the Windsor Repertory for the musical version of “She Stoops to Conquer” called “Oh Marry Me” followed by a season in the West End version of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” with Frankie Howard and Kenneth Connor. He was accepted as the understudy to this role and worked on the production side with George Abbot, Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim; followed by “The Sound of Music” and “The Student Prince” at the Cambridge Theatre in 1968. His first film role was in “Oh, What a Lovely War”, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough.
In 1970, Richard accepted an invitation which was to change the direction of his life drastically. He travelled to South Africa to play Tony in “The Boyfriend”; Tony in “West Side Story” and numerous other productions. But it was Richard strutting onto the stage in high heels and odd socks as the Narrator in “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” that firmly established him as a top favourite in the musical field.
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